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Title: Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes by Nicholas Slonimsky, Robert Bonotto, Nicolas Slonimsky ISBN: 0-415-93938-0 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Since When are Musicologists Funny?
Comment: In the course of my life I have spent many hours pouring over volume after volume of musical history. I am a professional clarinetist. Most things written by musicologists are incredibly boring. It's nothing personal against them, it just simply is. I will never forget the time I sat in the Deering Library in Northwestern University and read the introduction to Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. I had been in the library for the better part of the day, and decided to find out what Mr. Slonimsky had to say. I was immeadtley engrossed with the writing. Slonimsky was not only fluent and informative. He was downright funny. I was amazed to be reading a book that weighed more than most small dogs, and still find it funny. I came to realize that Slonimsky was no ordinary musicologist. He was an incredibly intresting man. He was not only a historian, but a composer. He compiled an enormous volume of scales and patterns whick most jazz players use frequently. At the age of 85, his best friend was Frank Zappa. He is the only musicologist I have ever known that appeared on the Carson Show. And, he is also the most accurate historian I have ever read. Slonimsky goes to great length to verify his sources. I would be willing to belive just about anything published under his pen. This Book of Musical Anectdotes is no exception. It is full of strange, and true tales of the most famous of musicians. All great musicians are genuises, and most of them are very strange. Mr. Slonimsky captures the true essence of the composers, and lets us see what else they did besides compose glorious music. A truly excellent, witty book.
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Title: Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time by Nicolas Slonimsky, Peter Schickele ISBN: 039332009X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 28 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: BOOK OF MUSICAL ANECDOTES by Norman Lebrecht ISBN: 0029187109 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1985 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Better Than It Sounds: A Dictionary of Humorous Musical Quotations by David W. Barber ISBN: 0920151221 Publisher: Sound And Vision Ltd Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: If It Ain't Baroque...: More Music History As It Ought to Be Taught by David W. Barber, Dave Donald ISBN: 0920151159 Publisher: Sound And Vision Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Slonimsky: Perfect Pitch, an Autobiography by Nicolas Slonimsky, Electra Yorke, Electra Yourke ISBN: 0825672740 Publisher: Omnibus Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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